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First in Research Final Presentations

FE-R students at their final presentations

From 4:30 - 6 pm yesterday, the WPU Assembly room was a zoo: 240 students, 51 faculty mentors, all their posters, laptop computers, and spiral-bound books of abstracts. The First In Research students' final presentations were awesome! Very impressive work by everyone. We loved having Marybeth and Wawa work with us this semester on Itinera.

The Encounters Project: Art in the City

During the spring of 2014, five undergraduate teaching mentors from the University of Pittsburgh implemented a program called The Encounters Project: Art in the City at a Pittsburgh Public Schools District high school.

What do you value about studying the humanities?

Our colleagues over at 4humanities.org have brought our attention to an "idea comparison" engine that they have set up to talk about what the value of studying the humanities might be. It presents you with a series of dyads, allowing you to pick between different options...including "I can't decide." You may also add your own thoughts. A peek at the results is also revealing...

The Beginning of the End

This is my last time in lab before our presentations next Thursday.  (Everyone should totally come to the WPU Assembly Room to see all of the FER presentations on 4/17 from 4:30-6!)  It's really weird to think that today might have been my last time logging into Itinera.  My freshman year is ending, and it's overall just a really weird feeling.  It's even worse when I think about how I will be in Tanzania in a month and France in a year.  Everyone says college moves so fast and its so true.

So Long, Farewell, auf wiedersehen, good bye.... :(

     Humanities, usually has the the bad rep of being easy and lacking in innovation and necessary mental capabilities. Society contrasts humanities with both math and science. They say that unlike, math and science, humanities does not take much effort anad doed not necessarily build on prior knowledge. Well, for everything we've learned in the digital humanities this semester, I can honestly say, society has it all wrong.

pass 1 and pass 2 of work flow timed test

 Last week we discussed work flow and the most efficient way to get the most done possible. So we tested ourselves to find out how much work we could do in a specific amount of time, and if we encountered any problems while doing our timed test. Some of the problems we encountered were the inability to track pieces of artwork, not understanding abbreviations that are no longer used, and how to identify a relationship between two people.